Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
eating flavor pleasure
The pleasure of eating is not in the costly flavor but in yourself.
pleasure profit reader vote won
He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.
sauce eating pleasure
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?
pain doe pleasure
Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
men pleasure profession
Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.
giving poetry pleasure
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.
secret virtue pleasure
If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.
too-much pleasure good-things
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.
pleasure source
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
pain pleasure despise
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
hours pleasure enjoy
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
winning hands pleasure
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
rich pleasure made
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
chief consist eating exquisite flavor pleasure seasoning
The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor but in yourself